Camp, L. C. Rosen
Camp, L. C. Rosen
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Camp

Author: L. C. Rosen

Narrator: Drew Caiden

Unabridged: 10 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/23/2020


Synopsis

Set in a summer camp, this sweet and sharp screwball comedy set in a summer camp for queer teens examines the nature of toxic masculinity and self-acceptance.

Sixteen-year-old Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens. It's where he met his best friends. It's where he takes to the stage in the big musical. And it's where he fell for Hudson Aaronson-Lim—who's only into straight-acting guys and barely knows not-at-all-straight-acting Randy even exists.

This year, however, it's going to be different. Randy has reinvented himself as 'Del'—buff, masculine, and on the market. Even if it means giving up show tunes, nail polish, and his unicorn bedsheets, he's determined to get Hudson to fall for him.

But as he and Hudson grow closer, Randy has to ask himself: How much is he willing to change for love? And is it really love anyway, if Hudson doesn't know who he truly is?

About L. C. Rosen

L. C. Rosen writes books for people of all ages, including Lavender House, which the New York Times says "movingly explores the strain of trying to pass as straight at a time when living an authentic life could be deadly" and was a best book of the year from Buzzfeed, Library Journal, Amazon, and Bookpage, among others. His novel, Camp, was also a best book of the year from places such as Forbes, Elle, and the Today show. He lives in New York City with his husband and a very small cat.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kai on December 31, 2019

I fully support this author's mission to destroy toxic masculinity with a single queer book......more

Goodreads review by anna on December 31, 2021

rep: gay Jewish mc, half-Korean gay Jewish li, Middle Eastern gay Jewish sc, demi lesbian sc, Afro-Brazilian-American sapphic sc, Black trans sc, nonbinary sc, gay scs ARC provided by the publisher. First things first: if you’ve read the blurb and you’re kind of worried about the whole "pretendin......more

Goodreads review by Tucker on June 23, 2020

Many thanks to Alex at Little Brown Books for Young Readers for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review This is one of my favorite books that deals with mental illness! To see the others and to here me ramble about my brain, watch my video, A Brief Trip Inside My Mind! ------------ "......more

Goodreads review by Miranda on March 22, 2021

Randy Kapplehoff waits all year for the summer - because with the summer comes Camp Outland. This is a camp made for queer teens and it's truly become Randy's home away from home. There's his best friends from across the country, there's the pure joy of creating a theater production in the matter of......more

Goodreads review by tappkalina on September 14, 2020

I bet y'all thought I will hate this based on my updates, and to be honest, I did too for a while, but it was really good, actually. This book twisted my every braincells. You know those morally gray characters - no one is fully right but everyone has a point? The premise of this book is that Hudson da......more